Other Losses

Other Losses, about the death camps for prisoners of war maintained by the French and Americans after World War Two. Over 200,000 copies sold in eleven countries.

“Stunning...”–Time magazine...

“a hornet’s nest...” –The Globe and Mail

“a truth so terrible I really can’t bear it...
a major historical discovery...”–Stephen E. Ambrose

This title is back in print in a new edition with new information.

Crimes and Mercies

Crimes and Mercies, recounts how the allies deliberately starved to death millions of Germans after World War Two. Over 30,000 copies sold in four countries

“A scholar of courage and great perseverance who deserves to be heard because what is at stake is our understanding of the 20th century not in terms of fantasy but of fact.”
–Dr. Dwight D. Murphey

“ Crimes and Mercies presents a powerful indictment of actions perpetrated by some of the victors of the second world war. Any notion that this can somehow be regarded as tolerable on the grounds of the collective guilt of the Germans is to accept [their] standards....The author dwells as illuminatingly on the unstinting and hitherto largely unsung struggle to aid the oppressed waged by generous-hearted men like Herbert Hoover and Victor Gollancz as he does on the callous or witless actions of men of less chivalrous spirit.”
–Nikolai Tolstoy in The Guardian

Dear Enemy
(with Richard Mathias Mueller)

Essays on Germany then and now.

"...one of life's truly luminescent moments, not unlike hearing Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony or Bruch's Violin Concerto for the first time. I know of no book that matches Dear Enemy as an exchange of pure intelligence, delightfully expressed." Dwight D. Murphey, in the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies.

"Like a thriller...not a dull moment...a kind of intellectual excitement I haven‚t had from anyone's letters since reading Virginia Woolf's. ..unforgettable..." John Bemrose, novelist, poet, playwright, and critic, Toronto.

"Brilliant...it's on the shelf of our visitors bedroom so that as many people as possible will get the message." Nikolai Tolstoy, novelist, critic, biographer, Abingdon, England.

Just Raoul

The biography of a French resistance hero who saved over 1,600 refugees from the Nazis.

"The resounding quality of Laporterie's character was not religion or idealism or nationalism, but merely deep humility. He risked his and his family's life for far more noble and fundamental reasons than modern ideas. His spark was ancient ideals. James Bacque's triumph is to record the motives and actions of a modern everyman, and to restore some of the smashed pride of wartime France....worthy of note about a subject worthy of knowledge...fascinating."
– The Toronto Globe and Mail

The Queen Comes To Minnicog

Prize-winning funny stories laughing at Canadians. This book was serialized in Harrowsmith magazine and won three prizes. and aphorisms, more funny stuff, poems...

Click here to read the title story, The Queen Comes To Minnicog , winner of Chatelaine Magazine’s fiction award.

The Lonely Ones

A novel about friends and lovers torn apart by Quebec separatism
Entitled Big Lonely in paperback

“the narrative voice suits the action, with meditative but muscular prose...”
--Times Literary Supplement...
“terrific...I enjoyed it immensely” –Patrick Watson...
“Prophetic and compelling" –Robert Kroetsch...
“Ho-hum...” --Time Magazine

...and the totally forgotten novel

A Man of Talent

Dramatizing the hip student revolutions of the 1970s
“Fatuous...” Kildare Dobbs
“Bacque is indeed a man of talent himself...”– someone in Windsor